Lincoln Diaz-Balart

Lincoln Diaz-Balart (13 August 1954-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-FL 21) from 3 January 1993 to 3 January 2011, preceding Mario Diaz-Balart.

Biography
Lincoln Diaz-Balart was born in Havana, Cuba in 1954, the son of politician Rafael Diaz-Balart, the nephew of Fidel Castro's first wife Mirta Diaz-Balart, and the brother of fellow politician Mario Diaz-Balart. His family fled to Florida in 1959 during the Cuban Revolution, and Lincoln worked as a lawyer before entering politics as a Republican Party member. He served in the State House of Representatives from 1986 to 1989, in the State Senate from 1989 to 1992, and in the US House of Representatives from 1993 to 2011, and he was a moderate Republican, opposing the "Contract with America" due to its denial of federal programs to legal immigrants, supporting gay rights, and supporting the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. He retired in 2011.